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March - April, 1910 



CONTENTS 



GENERAL ARTICLES page 



Frontispiece. — Song Sparrows T.ouis Agassiz Fueries 



President Roosevelt's List of Birds Seen in the White House Grounds 



AND About Washington 5 ^ 



Golden-eyes ON Yellowstone Lake. Illustration George Shtras, ^rd.. 55 



The Meadowlark. Verse Edward R. Ford.. 55 



Barred Owl Leaving Nest. Illustration Howard H. Cleazes . 56 



The Pileated Woodpecker Ernest Waters Vickers . . 57 



A New Departure for the Redwing. Illustrated Howard H. Cleaves.. 60 



Flicker at Nest. Illustration John M. Schreck . . 62 



Notes on Water Birds in Forest Park, St. Louis 



H. C. Williams and N'. deW. Belts.. 63 



Hooded Merganser in a Chicago Park. Illustrated Herbert R. Mills . . 65 



Florida Screech Owl ON Nest. Illustration P. B. Philipp . . 66 



The Migration of North American Sparrows. Third Paper. Illustrated by 



Louis Agassiz Fuertes W . W . Cooke . . 67 



The Data in the Biological Survey W. W. Cooke.. 70 



Notes on the Plumage of North .American Sparrows. Second Paper with map 



Frank M. Chapman . . 71 



BIRD-LORES ADVISORY COUNCIL 74 



NOTES FROM FIELD AND STUDY 76 



.A. Semi-Domesticated Warbl^^, Arthur H. Howell ; A Prothonotary Warbler in 

 Wellesley, Angie Clara Chapin; Wren and Sparrow, E. I. Metcalj; A Com- 

 mon-sense Bird-box, Illustrated, Edmund J. Sawyer; A New Bird Club; 

 Starlings at .-Amherst, Mass., Lilian Gillette Cook; Prospect P.a.rk Notes, 

 Edward Fleischer; Brewster's W^\RBLER at Waterbury, Conn., Norman B. 

 Pilliry: A Successful Martin Colony, James S. Becker; Our Duty to Our 

 Bird Tenants, IF. Bennett; The Cardinal in Northern New Jersey, 

 Katherine K. Mosle; A Queer Sparrow Song, Leander S. Keyscr; Ver.milion 

 Flycatcher in Sonoma County, California, Violet Wheeler; Cardinal Near 

 Buffalo, David E. Wheeler; Chautauqua Bird Lectures. 



BOOK NEWS AND REVIEWS 81 



Report on the Immigration of British Summer Residents im the Spring of 

 1008, Etc., II'. R. Ogilvie- Grant; 'The Home Life of a Golden E.agle', II. B. 

 Macpherson; 'Wild Life in the Rockies,' Enos A. Mills: 'Fauna of New 

 EsGLAND, II,' Glover M. Allen; 'Summer Birds of Shaw's Garden', Otto 

 Widman; 'The Purple Martin and Houses fo:! Its Summer Home', 

 /. Warren Jacobs. 



EDITORIAL 83 



AUDUBON SOCIETIES— SCHOOL DEPARTMENTS 84 



EDUCATIONAL LEAFLET NO. 43. Reu-headeu Woodpecker, with colored plates by 



£. J . .Suwy( r Florence Merriam Bailey 86 



AUDUBON SOCIETIES -EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT 90 



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